US4326542A - Firmness control in a cigarette maker - Google Patents

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US4326542A
US4326542A US06/111,607 US11160780A US4326542A US 4326542 A US4326542 A US 4326542A US 11160780 A US11160780 A US 11160780A US 4326542 A US4326542 A US 4326542A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/32—Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes; Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
    • A24C5/34—Examining cigarettes or the rod, e.g. for regulating the feeding of tobacco; Removing defective cigarettes
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S131/00—Tobacco
    • Y10S131/906—Sensing condition or characteristic of continuous tobacco rod
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • This invention pertains to cigarette manufacture and, in particular, to a method and apparatus for controlling cigarette firmness during such manufacture.
  • rod firmness is detected by a suitable firmness sensor which might comprise a plurality of mechanical contiguous feelers, or non-contiguous pneumatic or electrical devices.
  • a suitable firmness sensor which might comprise a plurality of mechanical contiguous feelers, or non-contiguous pneumatic or electrical devices.
  • Such practice further contemplates comparing the detected firmness with the target firmness to develop an error signal for controlling the tobacco content provided by the maker to the rod.
  • rod firmness is made to approach target firmness in typical control system fashion.
  • Systems of this general type are disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,411,513; 3,595,067 and 3,850,029.
  • detected cigarette rod firmness is corrected for firmness variations resulting from changes in rod moisture relative to a preselected or target moisture via a suitably processed detected moisture signal.
  • the corrected firmness signal is compared in standard fashion with a preselected target firmness value to derive an error signal for tobacco content control at the cigarette maker.
  • the present practice contemplates the detection of at least two cigarette rod parameters, i.e., rod firmness and rod moisture, and the processing of such detected parameters to afford control of the cigarette maker promotive of maker efficiency.
  • a third cigarette rod parameter namely, density, is also detected and processed with the firmness and moisture parameters to provide the desired cigarette maker control.
  • FIG. 1 shows a system for controlling cigarette rod firmness at a cigarette maker in accordance with the principles of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a system in accordance with the principles of the present invention for providing firmness control at a cigarette maker 1.
  • the latter maker can be of conventional type such as that manufactured by Molins Ltd. of the United Kingdom under model number Mk. 8 or Mk. 9.
  • the maker 1 provides a continuous cigarette rod which is cut into lengths to provide individual cigarettes.
  • this operation it has been proposed to control, amongst other parameters, the firmness of the rod so that it is maintained at a preselected or target firmness value. Resulting from this control are cigarettes having substantially the same feel, this being a cigarette characteristic desired by cigarette smokers.
  • firmness control is effected in a manner which affords greater economy and efficiency to maker operation. More particularly, in accordance with the present invention, a moisture sensor 2 and a firmness sensor 3 are utilized to provide output electrical signals M s and F s related to the moisture content and the firmness of the cigarette rod of the maker 1. These signals are together processed in a signal processor 4 which provides an output control signal C for controlling the tobacco content being provided by the maker to the cigarette rod.
  • the control signal C might be employed to adjust the height of the ecreteur blade used to cut the tobacco stream at a given depth during rod formation.
  • the control signal C might be used to control the tobacco feed to the maker hopper to obtain the desired tobacco content control.
  • Such practices are disclosed, for example, in the aforementioned U.S. Pat. No. 3,595,067.
  • the processing operations of the signal processor 4 involve the generating of a rod moisture content signal M c from the moisture sensor signal M s and the formation of a corrected rod firmness signal F cor from the firmness sensor signal F s .
  • the moisture content signal M c is utilized to determine the content of the firmness sensor signal F s attributable to cigarette rod moisture changes referenced to a target or desired rod moisture value M t .
  • the resultant rod firmness content signal F sm is combined with the firmness sensor signal F s to provide the corrected firmness signal F cor . Comparison of the corrected firmness signal F cor with a preselected or target cigarette rod firmness value F t provides the control signal C.
  • Rod firmness attributable to moisture can thus be expressed as follows:
  • K 0 is a constant determined by the tobacco blend and the rod weight per unit volume and K 1 is a negative constant determined by the tobacco blend only.
  • Firmness content attributable to moisture referenced to target moisture is therefore given as
  • the signal processor 4 determines the control signal C based on the expressions 1-4 and, for example, might take the form of a general or special purpose digital computer programmed in accordance with the latter expressions and having stored therein the target values and appropriate constants.
  • a typical microcomputer might be an Intel System 80/204 provided with an Intel System SBC 116 board. Interfacing such microcomputer with the analog signals M s , F s and C might typically be a model MP 8418-PGA-AO Burr-Brown A/D-D/A converter.
  • the signal processor 4 first processes the moisture sensor signal M s to generate the moisture content signal M c .
  • This processing procedure depends to a large degree on the particular moisture sensor being used and is designed to provide a signal which is representative of the actual or true rod moisture content. Where the characteristics of the moisture sensor are such that the sensor signal M s is itself representative of true rod moisture content, then this processing is carried out by equating M c to M s .
  • adjusting factors are provided to account for the influence of the sensor characteristics. In actual practice, these adjusting factors can be empirically determined for each particular moisture sensor.
  • a further sensor 5 for sensing the mass or density of the cigarette rod is employed for enabling moisture sensor signal adjustment.
  • a speed or velocity sensor 6 may be provided for cigarette rod speed determination and included for sensor signal adjustment.
  • a first sensor which might be employed for the sensor 2 could be a resistance type moisture sensor.
  • a resistance type moisture sensor might be formed on the above-mentioned conventional maker by inserting probes through apertures spaced along the length of the so-called tongue of the maker whereat the rod is being formed, the probes being of sufficient length to enter into the rod tobacco.
  • a current or voltage could then be supplied to the probe and the resultant voltage or current through the probe circuit measured to determine the tobacco rod resistance and, therefore, the rod moisture content.
  • probes could serve as inputs to the internal circuitry of a model No. TM-80 sensor manufactured by Testron to provide the moisture measurement.
  • moisture content can be expressed as follows:
  • a 0 -A 3 are constants which can be empirically determined for each particular tobacco blend and resistance sensor.
  • the signal processor 4 utilizes the sensor signal M s , the firmness sensor signal F s and the speed sensor signal S to derive the moisture content signal M c based on the expression 5.
  • the processor 4 is a digital computer, the computer is programmed in accordance with such expression to provide calculation of the moisture content M c .
  • the moisture sensor signal M s is a function of reflected and transmitted microwave power values in the absence and presence of the cigarette rod, these values being suitably adjusted for temperature variations, of the cavity and/or the rod.
  • M s is as follows: ##EQU1## where R a and T a are temperature adjusted values of the reflectance and transmittance of microwave power in the absence of the cigarette rod and R p and T p are temperature adjusted values of the reflectance and transmittance in the presence of the cigarette rod.
  • the obtained sensor signal M s requires adjustment related to the mass of the cigarette rod.
  • the moisture content is given as:
  • the constants B 0 and B 1 can be empirically determined for the particular tobacco blend and microwave sensor being used. Also, the processor 4, if a digital computer, would now be programmed in accordance with the expression 6 to determine the moisture content M c .
  • the firmness sensor 3 utilized with the present invention can be of a strain gauge type and may, for example, be of a type as shown and described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,033,360. Such a firmness sensor may be used with either of the above-described moisture sensors. Additionally, the mass sensor 5 might be a beta gauge type manufactured by Molins Ltd, and supplied with their model number Mk 8 or Mk 9.
  • the speed sensor 6, might be a simple tachometer of conventional design yielding a value of voltage to represent revolutions per minute.

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